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[Letter] 1838 Jan. 4, Cherokee Agency [to] John Ross, Washington City D.C. / Lewis Ross

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Type: Letters (correspondence) | Text
Creator: Ross, Lewis, d. 1869
Title: [Letter] 1838 Jan. 4, Cherokee Agency [to] John Ross, Washington City D.C. / Lewis Ross
Date: 1838 Jan. 4
Description: Letter dated January 4, 1838 from Lewis Ross to his brother John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, concerning the removal of the Cherokee people and the possibility of negotiating a treaty with better terms than the Treaty of New Echota, 1835.

Document ID: ch035.

Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Subjects: Cherokee Indians--Treaties | Trail of Tears, 1838 | Ross, John 1790-1866 | Southern States
Contributors: Tennessee State Library and Archives | University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Libraries
Online Publisher: Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia, 2000
Original Material: Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 24, document ch035.
Rights and Usage: This work is the property of the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.

Cite as: [title of item], State Library Cherokee Collection, The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia

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Related Institutions: Digital Library of Georgia
Hargrett Library
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Tennessee State Library and Archives
Tennessee State Museum
Frank H. McClung Museum (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Hoskins Library
LaFayette-Walker County Library
Collection Information: Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842